Articles from the October 11, 2012 edition

By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Tuesday night, the Cheney City Council responded to what Mayor Tom Trulove called the largest community outpouring of his mayoral career. “I have never received more public comment,” he said. “This is an issue a l...

By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter Cheney’s new zoning code could bring a lot more diversity in terms of building types and uses for commercial centers. Proposed changes to the commercial zoning code were discussed Monday by the Cheney Planning...

Around 20 firearms were taken from a Medical Lake home Saturday, Sept. 29. Last week, Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies helped recover some of those, while still pursuing the remaining weapons. Officers arrested Cody Wolfley, 20, on a charge of...

Gone are the days when a dedicated amateur photographer was easy to spot. Camera bags bulging with gear have been replaced, in some cases, by a sleek smartphone. Taking good photos is no longer a real...

Spokane Transit Authority presented its long-term plans for regional transportation, which includes creating easier access to Medical Lake, at the Oct. 2 meeting of the Medical Lake City Council. The plan includes upgrading the Medical Lake exit on...

By BECKY THOMAS Staff Reporter It seems like a simple proposition: you take an advanced class, work hard all year and take a test in the spring to measure your knowledge. If you do well, you receive college credit, getting a head start in pursuing yo...

The theme of the Airway Heights Planning Commission’s Monday, Oct. 8 meeting was a 20-year outlook. The commission looked at chapter three of its comprehensive plan, which factors in community issues, visions and goals. Having been static since...

Grant-funded safe routes around Sunset Elementary in Airway Heights are on hold until next year. City Planner Derrick Braaten said bids for the project came back $65,000 over the engineer’s estimate, and were put on hold until next year, with the h...

The results of a study conducted 2008-2010 and released last Thursday concluded that free birth control led to lower rates of abortion and teen births among low-income women in St. Louis, Mo. The project tracked more than 9,000 women, many of them...

We’re nearing the midpoint of October in an election year. With the myriad issues that face our nation and our state, voters are engaged and turnout is expected to be high. Hopefully, most citizens recognize the importance of voting, of participati...

Everyone agrees the rising cost of health care in the United States is unsustainable. Last year Americans spent $2.4 trillion, or nearly 18 percent of our gross domestic product, on health care. Frivolous lawsuits against doctors and hospitals...

John Goodwin was born on Jan. 28, 1920 to Sidney and Medora Goodwin at Crabcreek, Wash. (near Sprague). He died on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 at age 92. He attended school at Amber, Wash. Later, he worked as a farm laborer in the Amber and Cheney area....

Coats are still being collected for the annual Coats 4 Kids/Cheney Community Coat Drive through Oct. 19. Coats are donated to children and families through the work of community volunteers and partners. Coats can be donated at any Cheney School...

By JOHN McCALLUM Editor Fans at Saturday’s football game with Eastern Washington University and North Dakota got to experience something not usually seen at local college games. In the third quarter North Dakota linebacker Derrick Goard was involve...

If the first half of last Friday’s football game with visiting East Valley belonged to Cheney running back Austin Kautzman, the second half – particularly the fourth quarter – belonged to the... Full story

By PAUL DELANEY Staff Reporter They had a solid start and finish. But it was the soft middle of their game that did in the Medical Lake Cardinals last Friday in a 33-28 Homecoming/Hall-of-Fame... Full story

Medical Lake’s boys’ cross country team came within mere seconds of staging their biggest win and upset in years last Wednesday at home versus Lakeside. The Cardinal boys brought home three runners in the top-5 against the defending state 1A cham...

The Cheney girls’ soccer team halted their five-game losing streak in impressive fashion last week, notching a pair of shutouts with home wins over Deer Park, 11-0, and Colville, 4-0. The Lady Hawks recorded three hat tricks in Tuesday’s game...

Cheney’s cross country teams notched two more wins in Great Northern League dual meet action last week, and are beginning to look ahead now to post season competition. Tuesday at Colville the boys ran to wins over the host Indians, 22-39, and West...